The Testimony of the Rocks, Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedT. Constable, 1857 - 500 pages |
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... feet in thick- Apparently from the original looseness of their texture , the individual plants are but indifferently pre- served ; nor can we expect that organisms so ancient should exhibit any very close resemblance to the plants which ...
... feet in thick- Apparently from the original looseness of their texture , the individual plants are but indifferently pre- served ; nor can we expect that organisms so ancient should exhibit any very close resemblance to the plants which ...
Page 19
... portion of their revenues than from their fields and moors . Rock and skerry are brown with sea - weed . The long cylindrical lines of Chorda filum , many feet in length , lie aslant in the tide - way ; OF PLANTS . 19.
... portion of their revenues than from their fields and moors . Rock and skerry are brown with sea - weed . The long cylindrical lines of Chorda filum , many feet in length , lie aslant in the tide - way ; OF PLANTS . 19.
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... feet over the soil ; while at the edge of trickling runnel or marshy hollow , a smaller and less hardy species , Lycopodium inundatum , takes its place . The marshes themselves bristle thick with the deep green horse - tail , Equisetum ...
... feet over the soil ; while at the edge of trickling runnel or marshy hollow , a smaller and less hardy species , Lycopodium inundatum , takes its place . The marshes themselves bristle thick with the deep green horse - tail , Equisetum ...
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... feet over the soil ; and such was their abundance in this neigh- bourhood , that one can scarce examine a fragment of coal beside one's household fire that is not charged with their carbonized remains . Though marked by certain ...
... feet over the soil ; and such was their abundance in this neigh- bourhood , that one can scarce examine a fragment of coal beside one's household fire that is not charged with their carbonized remains . Though marked by certain ...
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... feet , looks down upon all the second - class trees of the country . Again , the minute forked spleenwort of Arthur Seat , which rare- ly exceeds three inches in length , is of the same fa- mily as those tree - ferns of New Zealand and ...
... feet , looks down upon all the second - class trees of the country . Again , the minute forked spleenwort of Arthur Seat , which rare- ly exceeds three inches in length , is of the same fa- mily as those tree - ferns of New Zealand and ...
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